Tom Gorham

Great expectations for Pages’ ePub export

by Tom Gorham on 1 November 2010 in iWork
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I don’t know if a single-point upgrade to any Apple application has yet revolutionised an entire industry, but the recent upgrade from Pages 9.0.3 to Pages 9.0.4 is in the running to be the first. The reason? The addition of an ePub export option to sit alongside the existing Word, RTF and plain text choices. [...]

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Grabbing live data from the Internet with Numbers

by Tom Gorham on 18 October 2010 in iWork
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Numbers doesn’t have the ability to pull live data from the Internet,but a short dabble in AppleScript can remedy that, as we explain… I wrote about Numbers’ role as a powerful accounting program in a recent issue (see MacUser, 10 September, p80). In truth though, it’s probably being used far more widely as a personal [...]

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Ringing the changes in Pages’ editing history

by Tom Gorham on 4 October 2010 in iWork
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Pages’ track changes feature may not be quite as comprehensive as Word’s, but it’s still pretty impressive – and even applies to layout elements… As far as it’s possible to have any sort of relationship with a feature in a word processing program, it’s fair to say that Track Changes and I have had a [...]

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Numbers 09 rocks, categorically speaking

by Tom Gorham on 20 September 2010 in iWork
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The ability to organise data into different categories makes Numbers a powerful tool if you find yourself working with long lists of information. Sometimes it seems that Numbers can’t win. Back at the turn of the year I was asked by a friend to recommend a Mac-based accounting program. Based on his simple needs – [...]

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An outline of grievances with Pages’ planning tool

by Tom Gorham on 6 September 2010 in iWork
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Pages now has an outlining feature, which is fantastic news, but you shouldn’t ditch your old outlining tools just yet, as it has a couple of flaws… Much of the annoyance value of a saying such as ‘fail to plan, plan to fail’ probably comes from the fact that, as with all similarly irritating aphorisms, [...]

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Getting a better service from Pages

by Tom Gorham on 24 August 2010 in iWork
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Pages may not come with as many features as Word, but by using services that are already built-in to Mac OS X, you can improve its functionality. If I’d been given a pound for every time someone has told me: ‘Pages can’t do that’ or ‘Pages is missing feature x’, it’s fair to say that [...]

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